Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-06-18
DOMESTIC.

/ The Dover yacht race over a course Of for
/ ty- ive miles vas won by the Thistle, which
/ passed the line eleven minutes ahead Of the
| Genesta, the lreE third. The Scotch yacht
/ is evidently faster than anything else on the
I other side Whether it has sufficient haste
/ to get away with the American cup remains
I to be seen
A Liverpool philanthrOpist named Ismsy
offers to give 800, OC0a as a nucleus for a pen
| sion fund for disabled seamen-
! The NOUOs VreHya accuses England of in
| triguing in Bokhara, and says the first at
| tempt to replace the present eHir with his
I brother will be the signal for Russian Ocou-
/ patton Of the country. 1t also warns the
English that they are taking the wrong way
| to secure Russia's assent TO the AnglO-Turk-
| iah convention with relation to EGYPT The
/ NOUOs Vremyd being an inspired organ,
/ a good deal Of significance attaches to its
| utteranC6s.
| Chief Justice Mercur, of the Pennsylvania
| supreme court Is dead
The eighteen hundred employees Of the
| Reading iron works have refused to accept
| the proposed 10 per cent. cut in wages. If
| he reduction Is ordered, a strike is expect
cd.
The statement that Duke Paul of Neck
/ lenbuyg-SchWerin has returned to the Ro-
man Catholic church Is confirmed.
The London papers criticise Nj Glad
stones speeches in Wales with great seveE-
! A locomotive boiler exploded at Chester,
| Pennsylvania, killing one man and iniuring
/ a dozen persons, some of them fatally. The
| engineer sat in his cab and escaped unhurt.
The New York, Wheeling, st. Louis &
| Chicago Railway company has been inror-
pOrated, with capital stock OF Sl4, GOO. 600.
| Its lines Will extend from Wheeling to East
i Zf Nnmfa and NaumRaaEAr Ohio "a
/ Fort Wayne
! A decision Just rendered by the Missouri
/ supreme court in effect makes the Iron
| Mountain railway Independent of local
/ legislation at St Louis and gives it right of
/ way through all the streets of that city that
/ it may desire to use for extensions.
It is rumored at Brussels that the prime
ministers Of Belgium desiies to withdraw
/ from Office. The rumOr is entirely credible,
| considering the desperate condition Of the
/ internal affairs Of Belgium at the present
moment.
The wheat crop of Ohio is estimated by
| the state board of agriculture at 3O4, 200, OOO
/ bushels, a shortage of $4,000 bushels as
compared with the average of the past seven
years. The prospects OF oats and meadows
/ have been improved by the recent rains.
/ The wheat crop of California viii fall con-
| siderably below that Of last year.
Range cattle from Texas are arriving in
| and prices are declining.
Great floods are prevailing in portions of
| Somerset and Cambria counties, PeDnsyl-
vania. The losses in the immediate vicinity
Of JOhnstoWn are estimated at $4,000.
Despite the protests of France and Russia
the porte will, it is said, ratify the Angl o
Turkish convention The adhesion of the
powers viii be invited to the convention
after it is ratified. and if any of them fail
/ to give their sanction within three years the
English occupation Of Egypt Will be pro-
| lOnged. If these statements are accurate,
/ two things are clear: British influence at
| Constantinople Is again predominant. aud
John Bull intends to retain his grip on Egypt
indefinitely, regardless Of French and Rus
sian objections.
Lawrence Donovan, the American ''bridge
artist, F" was about to jump into the Thames
from Westminster BRIDGE IN London, when
the police seized him sDd took him before a
magistrate. He Was dismissed with warn
/ ing against further attempts to distinguish
I himself IN that manner.
! Fifty-three persons are believed to have
| been killed by an explosion of tire-damp in
/ a W5stphalla cOlllery. Forty bodies had
| been recovered last evening.
! Governor Oglesby, OF Illinois, has vetoed
on constitutional grounds, the bill apprOpri-
| ating 81, 772. 81 for furnishing the rooms in
| Chicago occupied by the First district appel
/ late court.
/ The tax on the passenger receipts of rail-
/ way cOrporations now Yields 500, 900 aunu-
/ The supreme court of the United States, in
| a recent decision, holds this tax to be IN
| constitutional and the companies will here
after refuse TO pay it.
/ Another operation has been performed
| upon the crown princes throat at Berlin.
| The patient went driving after the opera
/ ton and will leave for England shortly,
/ where he expects to make prolonged stay.
| Colored men are to be admitted to the
| Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
/ Workers, from which they have hitherto
been excluded.
The Pittsburgh and Western railroad was
sold at United States marshal's sale for ST.
100000.
The anniversary Of Garibaldi's death at
tracted great numbers Of people to Caprera.
/ The patriots tomb was prOfuselg decorated
with flowers and his house was visited by
| thousands.
/ Lord Harrington will DISCUSS Mr.. Glad
| stones proposal for a liberal conference in
a public address at Manchester on the oath
/ instant.
The Vienna government has taken the
initiative in negotiations for new treaty of
commerce with Germany.
| AtMorehead, Kentucky, John and William
Logan, notorious desperadOes, shot and
killed Marshal Mannin, who was trying to
arrest them, and were at once shot dead by
members Of the marshals posse.
A patrol of the coast of the United States
by vessels Of the revenue marine has been
established by the treasury department as
a safeguard against the introduction of in
fictitious diseases from abroad.
A commercial traveller from New Orleans
is IN jail at Waco, Texas, for refusal to pay
a hne imposed for selling goods WithOuI 8
permit, as required by the "drummers' tax
act The case Will be made a test one, the
expenses Of the defense to be paid by an as
ISOLATION OF travelling statesmen
LandsdoWne viii, It is said, be made a
duke when the queen distributes her jubilee
trinkets.
The suit OF David s. FOthsringham against
the Adams Express company, for damages
in the sum OF 100000, in connection with
the sO-callsd "Jim Cummings" robbery OF
the express company last fall. was trans
court at the instance Of the express CON-
pany.
Capt. John I. StOckdale, principal owner
Of the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati packet
line, ana one Of the best known steam boat
men in the west, dropped dead Of hear
disease at his residence in Allegheny City.
The deceased was 81 years of age.
A ''naval court has been inveF tigatine
the recent Celtic Britannia collision at sea
The court was held before the acting British
consul at New York, and seems to have made
| a searching inquiry into the causes of the
disaster. It finds that both captains were al
fault for sailing their vessels at such high
rate OF speed IN a dense fog, and thai
Captain Perry, of the Britannia, wa
| especially oensurabls for not sounding the
fog whistle and for falling to give the proper